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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
(Supreme) Court Considers Whistleblower Lawsuits
Post Date: 2006-03-21 17:31:08 by Zipporah
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1 hour, 41 minutes ago The Supreme Court on Tuesday debated whether government employees have free-speech rights that protect them while they are carrying out their duties. The case involves Richard Ceballos, a Los Angeles prosecutor who was demoted after he urged his supervisors to drop a criminal case because he believed a sheriff's deputy had lied in a search warrant affidavit. A ruling against Ceballos could affect the nation's 20 million public employees by removing their ability to use the First Amendment as protection against supervisors' retaliation for bringing government misconduct or other issues to light. At issue is whether employers' desires to operate efficient ...
JUROR NULLIFIES JUDGE; TEACHER CHARGED WITH RESPECTING CONSTITUTION
Post Date: 2006-03-21 12:02:17 by Brian S
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JUROR NULLIFIES JUDGE TEACHER CHARGED WITH RESPECTING CONSTITUTION By John Tiffany Carol Asher, 66, is a former educator and a good Christian. She works as a volunteer assistant to retired Phoenix, Ariz., police officer Jack McLamb and his civil liberties-oriented organization, Police and Military Against the New World Order. She is a hard worker and a caring person who strives to help others. As a result, she found herself facing the possibility of serving 14 years in prison. What heinous crime did the onetime schoolteacher commit that would cause the government to consider putting her behind bars for possibly the rest of her life? Serving on a jury that was hearing the case of a ...
Jean Bodin, Legal Witch-Finder of Paris
Post Date: 2006-03-21 06:23:45 by aristeides
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Jean Bodin, Legal Witch-Finder of Paris Author of De La Demonomanie des Sorciers (Of the Demonomania of Witches), demonologist, judge, and French lawyer, Jean Bodin was a respected and educated man. Having judged many witchcraft trials, Bodin gathered all that he had learned about witchcraft into Demonomanie. Bodin offered one of the first legal definitions of a witch: "One who knowing God's laws tries to bring about some act through an agreement with the Devil." The fifteen crimes committed by witches were listed in Demonomanie: 1. Denial of God. 2. Cursing God and blaspheming. 3. Giving honour to the Devil by worshipping him and making sacrifices. 4. Dedication of children ...
BUSH ADMINISTRATION DIRECTS FBI TO OUTSOURCE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN GEORGIA
Post Date: 2006-03-20 23:31:18 by Zipporah
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Under the direction of the Bush Administration, the FBI has used a Universal Health Services Behavioral Hospital in Sandy Springs, Georgia to illegally and forcibly hospitalize and detain citizens who have either had their human rights violated by the FBI, or witnessed illegal FBI activity in Atlanta, Georgia.scan.jpg, image/jpeg, 597x585 Deborah Lloyd Seattle, Washington 404-354-0172 (cell) deb98126@yahoo.com BUSH ADMINISTRATION DIRECTS FBI TO OUTSOURCE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN SANDY SPRINGS, GEORGIA By Deborah Lloyd February 25, 2006 There has been much media coverage of the outsourcing of human rights violations by the Bush administration. Most of this is regarding alleged ...
V is for Vendetta - Two Thumbs (Articles) Up
Post Date: 2006-03-20 22:40:31 by Phaedrus
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'V for Vendetta' by Butler Shaffer I have always been a highly-critical moviegoer. I do not attend a film without first learning as much about it as I can, particularly from a synthesis of movie reviews and opinions provided by friends and relatives whose judgments I trust. As a consequence, I am not a “movie buff”; I have seen only one of the films nominated for major Oscars this year, Syriana, a picture I highly recommend. It is for this reason that I awaited, with skeptical enthusiasm, the opening of V for Vendetta. I had heard so much about it ever since one of my daughters told me, a number of months ago, of a billboard she saw at the Warner Brothers studios with the ...
Contractors Hired to Subvert Bill of Rights
Post Date: 2006-03-20 20:42:45 by loner
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n November of last year, Walter Pincus, writing for the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, told us about the Pentagon’s CIFA, short for Counterintelligence Field Activity, “a little-known Pentagon agency” that has the “authority to investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage.” At the time, a presidential commission, chaired by Laurence H. Silberman and former senator Charles S. Robb, was working to grant CIFA a carte blanc on “domestic criminal investigations and clandestine operations against potential threats inside the United States,” in other words “new ...
Bombs and Butchers: 'Where Do We Get Such Men?'
Post Date: 2006-03-20 17:07:22 by Zipporah
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Bombs and Butchers
"Where Do We Get Such Men?"
By WERTHER
The question posed in our title rings historical and true, and nine out of ten readers might surmise it refers to the Marines at Khe Sanh, or perhaps the boys of Pointe du Hoc, or possibly the lost battalion almost 90 summers ago in the fields of France.
But it is artifice, a quote from a movie based on James Michener's novel, The Bridges of Toko-ri. It rings true because we think it ought to be true: because it tidies up the sordid and disjointed reality of violence in the name of a cause.
This process is behind the confidence trick of how the state mystifies and glorifies its underhanded acts. In war, ...
Bush staffers ejected 3 at speech (WH employee ousted 3 at pres speech in Denver)
Post Date: 2006-03-20 12:45:45 by Zipporah
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Secret Service not responsible. A federal report shows a White House employee ousted the trio from the president's talk in Denver.
A White House staff member was responsible for asking three people to leave President Bush's town-hall meeting in Denver a year ago, a U.S. Secret Service agent said during an internal investigation of the event.
The Secret Service was investigating the complaints of the three people, who said they were ousted from the Bush event last March because their car's bumper sticker criticized his foreign policy.
According to a Secret Service report obtained by the Denver Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, the agents present said it was ...
911 One Simple Question
Post Date: 2006-03-20 10:35:18 by Zoroaster
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911 One Simple Question By Ted Lang 3-19-6 It has often been said by opponents of our tyrannical state, that what with all the spying, investigating, and recordkeeping our criminal government is gathering on US to silence dissent and opposition, the bureaucrats and organized gangsters will eventually choke and be strangled by their desired overabundance of information on Americans. They will simply be inundated with so much information that it will become impossible for them to manage or to act efficiently upon it in order to eradicate dissent. But the same can also be said of the analogous mountain ranges of facts, photos, documented physical impossibilities and videos ...
Saddam's al-Qa'ida link 'revealed'
Post Date: 2006-03-20 09:48:23 by Eoghan
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DOCUMENTS seized in Iraq immediately after the US invasion in 2003 point to the presence of al-Qa'ida members in the country before the war, and show there had been moves to hide traces of "chemical or biological materials" from UN weapons inspectors. The documents have been posted on the internet as part of a rolling program by the US Government to make public the contents of 48,000 boxes of untranslated papers and tapes relating to the workings of Saddam Hussein's regime. Saddam is said to have routinely taped talks with cabinet members and intelligence chiefs. US director of national intelligence John Negroponte was ordered by President George W. Bush to release the material. ...
The Torture Judge
Post Date: 2006-03-19 19:56:08 by Horse
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Essentially you have a judge saying that assuming that U.S. officials sent Mr. Arar to be tortured, a judge can do nothing about it. Georgetown University law professor David Cole, New York Law Journal, February 17 In a startling, ominous decision—ignored by most of the press around the country—Federal District Judge David Trager, in the Eastern District of New York, has dismissed a lawsuit by a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, who, during a stopover at Kennedy Airport on the way home to Canada after vacation, was kidnapped by CIA agents. Arar was flown to Syria, where he was tortured for nearly a year in solitary confinement in a three-by-six-foot cell ("like a ...
Ex-FBI Agent/Whistleblower's Son Framed For Murder
Post Date: 2006-03-19 16:41:46 by Zipporah
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Ex-FBI Agent/Whistleblower's Son Framed For Murder Former FBI Agent And Whistle Blower's Son Framed For Murder He Didn't Commit 3-18-6 John Peeler has "all the dirty goods" on the U.S. government's covert operations to kill New World Order foes, as well as the hidden details behind Waco, Oklahoma City and 9/11. 18 Mar 2006 John Peeler has been called a "jack boot thug" more than once in his life, even calling himself "the worst of the worst" for the downright "dirty assignments" he took on as a longtime FBI agent. Peeler, who saw it all so to speak, worked behind the scenes or had inside information about Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City and ...
FREE REPUBLIC MISSION STATEMENT - George W. Bush and The Republican Congress Don't Stand For Any Of It
Post Date: 2006-03-19 15:57:13 by Uncle Bill
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What is our mission? Free Republic is dedicated to reversing the trend of unconstitutional government expansion and is advocating a complete restoration of our constitutional republic. Listed below are some of the issues we feel strongly about. Basically, we believe that the Founders designed our system of government in the form of a constitutionally limited republic, with maximum freedom intended for the people and minimum government control or interference into our personal lives and business affairs. The united states of America was intended to be a federation of sovereign states, each with its own constitution and state government. Governments at all levels -- federal, state and ...
Some Troops Headed Back To Iraq Are Mentally Ill
Post Date: 2006-03-19 11:40:29 by Brian S
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March 19, 2006 Besides bringing antibiotics and painkillers, military personnel nationwide are heading back to Iraq with a cache of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications. The psychotropic drugs are a bow to a little-discussed truth fraught with implications: Mentally ill service mem-bers are being returned to combat. The redeployments are legal, and the service members are often eager to go. But veterans groups, lawmakers and mental-health professionals fear that the practice lacks adequate civilian oversight. They also worry that such redeployments are becoming more frequent as multiple combat tours become the norm and traumatized service members are retained out of loyalty or ...
NYC cops used covert tactics, `proactive arrests' at protests
Post Date: 2006-03-19 11:09:34 by Zipporah
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Internal NYPD memos disclose tactics used in 2002 during the World Economic Forum which icluded 'proactive arrests', intimidation, psychological manipulation, infiltaration. It appears that towards the time of the Republican National Convention in 2004 those tactics escalated to essential entrapment and mass arrests of protesters. In five internal reports made public Thursday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used "proactive arrests," covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002, and recommend those approaches be employed at future gatherings. ... The reports provide a glimpse of ...
The Red and the Black (REVIEW OF "V FOR VENDETTA")
Post Date: 2006-03-19 10:36:56 by aristeides
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The Red and the Black Posted by James Wolcott Thursday night, went to a screening at the Time Warner complex, preceded by a cocktail party. It was quite a luau, as is Vanity Fair's style when hosting such get-togethers. Mike Nichols was there. Candace Bergen. Director James Toback, with whom I blabbed, having not bumped into him since he was taking a break on the sidewalk during the shooting of Black and White, where he introduced me to Mike Tyson, who was chomping on cherry Twizzles three at a time, making small talk somewhat arduous. Joe Conason, he and his wife Elizabeth were at the party and screening; Richard Cohen, Maggie Gylenhaal, Oliver Platt, Ashleigh Banfield, local anchorman ...
Photos of Huge Police presence at Pittsburgh Peace Parade.
Post Date: 2006-03-18 22:52:06 by Zipporah
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Unfortunately, I had to work and missed most of the parade. I heard from some who were in or watched it go by that there were about 1,000 people, all ages, all types, many signs for peace, for IMPEACHING BUSH, for ENDING THE FALSE WAR. What everyone noticed was the huge police presence. I caught up with the march at the end, in Oakland, the densely populated urban neighborhood that the University of Pittsburgh calls home. Photos and some comments after the flip. (A lot of medium size photos.) Hope Sat. night isn't the worst time to submit this. What did you see in your homeland?Yellow Canary's diary :: :: The march wasn't hard to find. I just drove towards the helicopter. No march is ...
Patriot Act Board Game Pokes Fun at the Recently Renewed Anti-Terrorism Law
Post Date: 2006-03-18 19:51:35 by Brian S
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The Associated Press HAMILTON, N.J. - In this send-up of "Monopoly," players don't pass "Go" and they don't go directly to jail they go to Guantanamo Bay. Instead of losing cash for landing on certain squares, they lose civil liberties. And the "Mr. Monopoly" character at the center of the board is replaced by a scowling former Attorney General John Ashcroft. "Patriot Act: The Home Version" pokes fun at "the historic abuse of governmental powers" by the recently renewed anti-terrorism law, according to its creator's Web site. But while it may be fun, creator Michael Kabbash, a graphic artist and Arab civil rights advocate, is serious ...
MISSISSIPPI: When Dildos Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Fun
Post Date: 2006-03-18 16:01:27 by Mind_Virus
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Saturday, March 18, 2006 When Dildos Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Fun Here's to the State of Mississippi. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Mississippi's sacred right to ban the sale of sex toys. A Hinds County judge ruled in 2003 that state law does not extend the right to privacy to the commercial sale of sexual devices. The Mississippi high court said there is no fundamental right of access to buy sexual devices. The justices said while a federal court had found a similar Alabama law was unconstitutional, other courts — including ones in Georgia, Louisiana and Texas — have rejected attempts to expand the right to privacy to include the commercial sale ...
Judge orders Gmail disclosure
Post Date: 2006-03-18 14:12:47 by Zipporah
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"Police blotter" is a weekly http://News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: In a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, a subpoena is sent to Google for the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. This is unrelated to the Department of Justice's own subpoena to Google for search terms and excerpts from its search database. When: U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte in San Francisco ruled on Jan. 31 and March 13. Outcome: Judge grants subpoena and orders that all e-mail messages, including deleted ones, be divulged. What happened, according to the court: In November 2003, the Federal Trade ...
Is The Constitution Dead?
Post Date: 2006-03-18 12:26:31 by Mind_Virus
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Is The Constitution Dead? Friday, March 17th, 2006 All too often when I propose returning America’s monetary and banking systems to constitutional principles, or revitalizing “the Militia of the several States”, I find myself assailed with the retort that “the Constitution is dead”; that attempts to apply its true principles–its “original intent”–as a means of limiting the powers of contemporary public officials are futile; and that my exhortations to the contrary are irrelevant, impotent, and even innately, if innocuously, screwball in character. Although no man is likely to be taken for a prophet in his own country, one’s being spurned ...
Tomgram: De la Vega on Bush's Infinite Constitutional Loop
Post Date: 2006-03-18 11:58:14 by robin
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[Tom Engelhardt]Since today's dispatch is by a former federal prosecutor, let me suggest a small "law" of my own, one fit for the present moment: When it comes to the Bush administration, whatever the subject may be and however bad you think things are, they're going to be at least several fallback positions worse than whatever top administration officials may be fessing up to at any given moment. This, after all, is the administration of adamant denials, followed by forceful non-confessions, followed by proud statements, followed by limited hang-outs, followed by even more grudging, only slightly less limited hang-outs. In that spirit, without a bit of insider information but ...
ABC's "Boston Legal" Speaks For Us All - More "V"s in Bush's Ministry of Truth?
Post Date: 2006-03-18 10:39:41 by Arator
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Click the link above and watch an excerpt from a recent episode of "Boston Legal." You won't regret it.
What Lies Ahead
Post Date: 2006-03-18 10:36:20 by christine
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What Lies Ahead? by Butler Shaffer bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Home | About | Columnists | Blog | Subscribe | Donate What Lies Ahead?by Butler Shafferby Butler Shaffer [A] civilization can be defined at once by the basic questions it asks and by those it does not ask. ~ Andre Malraux There is a booming silence on a topic of enormous importance to the entire world. Like friends and relatives who gather at the bedside of a terminally-ill person – none daring to let the word “death” pass o’er their lips – there is an unwillingness to openly contemplate the future of the American state. There are the inquiries into questions that have long been ...
White House lawyers argued for warrantless searches after 9/11
Post Date: 2006-03-18 10:07:00 by Zipporah
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According to a news magazine, White House lawyers argued for the right to conduct warrantless searches of terrorism suspects on U.S. soil after the 9/11 attacks based on the "same legal authority" as President Bush's controversial wiretapping program, RAW STORY has learned. The article is scheduled to appear on the U.S. News and World Report Website sometime on Saturday with the magazine hitting the newsstands on Monday. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann read from a U.S. News press release during his Countdown television show (video link via Daily Kos diary) and the following is a RAW STORY transcript: # Soon after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, lawyers for the White House ...
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